diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt
index 806a965a1b1..be68524cff3 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10
    not exclude them and tried to apply funny patches only to fail.
 
  * "git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin
-   since we stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2
+   since we stopped using the diff minimization by default in v1.7.2
    era.
 
  * When PATH contains an unreadable directory, alias expansion code
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt
index cf3f455ced0..7796df3fe48 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.5.3
 --------------------
 
  * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking
-   that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
+   that it was told to add everything ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by
    mistake.
 
  * Setting a git command that uses custom configuration via "-c var=val"
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt
index e74f4ef1efd..b9c66aa1b79 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.8.1
  * The configuration file parser used for sizes (e.g. bigFileThreshold)
    did not correctly interpret 'g' suffix.
 
- * The replacement implemention for snprintf used on platforms with
+ * The replacement implementation for snprintf used on platforms with
    native snprintf that is broken did not use va_copy correctly.
 
  * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter replaced all LF with CRLF, which might
-   be techinically correct but not friendly to people who are trying
+   be technically correct but not friendly to people who are trying
    to recover from earlier mistakes of using CRLF in the repository
    data in the first place. It now refrains from doing so for LF that
    follows a CR.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
index b4d90bba0f6..249311361e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
  * Updates to bash completion scripts.
 
  * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
-   dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
+   dependency automatically when the compiler supports it.
 
  * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes
    part and also has a colon between "hh:mm".
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.7
  * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
    commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort".
 
- * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients
+ * "git daemon" gives more human readable error messages to clients
    using ERR packets when appropriate.
 
  * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt
index 1354ad03f5e..769a6fc06c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Fixes since v1.8.2
    common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped.
 
  * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
-   acccumulate the prefix paths.
+   accumulate the prefix paths.
 
  * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort
    filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt
index dab4831ca03..708df1ae196 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt
@@ -58,4 +58,4 @@ Fixes since v1.8.2.1
    conflicts have been applied.
 
  * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without
-   any message as its one of the prerequistes.
+   any message as its one of the prerequisites.